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Morbid Butcher were a death/black metal band from Espírito Santo whose roots trace back to the late 1980s underground tape-trading circuit, releasing demos such as Randiness of God (1988) and The Dark Plague (1994) before returning with Morbid Butcher Return (1998) and Fly for Darkness (1999). Their live album Muggefug (2006) served as a document of the band's raw, primitive approach before they eventually dissolved.
Vineland, New Jersey's Morbid Cross have been delivering straight-ahead thrash metal since 2019, keeping the genre's no-frills riff-first approach alive in a state with a long history of underground thrash activity.
Morbid Cult is a black metal band from Metz, France, formed in 2014. They channel dark, ritualistic black metal from the Lorraine region.
Merrick, New York's Morbid Curiosity began with death metal and grindcore before expanding into alternative metal and hardcore territory — a restless band formed in 2020 that resists settling into any single extreme subgenre.
Ferocious Thrash Metal from Alice.
Washington state black metal act formed in 2016, channeling raw aggression through a grim, uncompromising approach to the genre. Their Bandcamp output reflects an underground sensibility rooted in the Pacific Northwest's isolated atmosphere.
Morbid Desecration deal in war metal — raw, punishing black/death metal built around themes of war, apocalypse, and annihilation, in the tradition of Brazilian bestial metal. They have been releasing material since 2016 on the underground circuit, operating with the ferocity and no-frills production that defines the genre.
New Brunswick, New Jersey outfit that launched in 2023 fusing the bestial savagery of black metal with the riff-forward brutality of death metal. A young project in the blackened death tradition that pulls from the ugliest corners of both genres.
Morbid Devastation is a death/black metal band from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, formed in 2016. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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